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Rocheli Dickstein
CHASSID IN
16 ATHE
LIONS DEN
Avrohom Rainitz
AND EVEALING
30 SEEING
THE PRECIOUS SOULS
OF OUR CHILDREN
R Nachman Twersky
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
M.M. Hendel
HEBREW EDITOR:
Rabbi S.Y. Chazan
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ENGLISH EDITOR:
Boruch Merkur
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DVAR MALCHUS
THE PEOPLE ON
FOOT BRING
OUR HEAD, OUR
LEADER
Thus, it is written, Six hundred thousand people on foot are the people in whose
midst I am, for by means of the people on foot the Divine revelation of Anochi
is drawn within the midst of Moshe. * From Chapter 8 of Rabbi Shloma Majeskis
Likkutei Mekoros (Underlined text is the compilers emphasis.)
Translated by Boruch Merkur
With
the
help
Parshas
Tetzaveh,
of
10
Heaven.
Shabbos
Adar
I,
5741.
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THE
REBBES
PUPIL
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R Alexander
Klonimus Steiner
the Rebbe taught
his daughters
he Rebbe, at that
time the son-in-law
of the Lubavitcher
Rebbe, came to the
house where we lived and taught
me and my sister. He wore a beret
and his beard was short. He would
sometimes eat with us.
That is what eighty year old
Mrs. Ruth Bezek, who lives in the
center of Eretz Yisroel, had to say.
During the Holocaust, her family
fled to Nice in France where she
learned alef-beis with the Rebbe.
Ruth does not like to talk
about that period, when her family
escaped from Austria to France and
lived as refugees under complicated
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many Jews found a safe haven
there in the hopes that the Italians
would save them from the Nazis.
The Fascist Italian government,
despite its collaboration with
the Nazis and being actively
against the Jews, was unwilling
to send Jews in its territory to the
concentration camps.
The Rebbe and Rebbetzin
lived in Nice (which was called
Nizza at the time) for eightnine months until the beginning
of the summer of 1941. For
part of this time, the Rebbe
and Rebbetzin lived in a rented
apartment in a small hotel which
was near the train station. It was
very dangerous here too and
they did not go out to the street
much. There were days that the
government announced a curfew
and the Rebbe hardly went out
except on Shabbos when he went
to daven in the beis midrash in a
big hotel that was full of Jewish
refugees.
Notwithstanding
all
the
danger, the Rebbe and Rebbetzin
made efforts to help many Jews,
materially and spiritually. Despite
the Italians attitude, there were
limitations to religious activity in
Nice.
PRIVATE LESSONS
Now we come to new
testimony that is being publicized
here for the first time, about the
Rebbe teaching young girls in
their home.
At the time that the Italians
controlled Nice, there were
strict religious restrictions which
included
studying
religion.
Therefore, some Jews organized
small learning groups so they
would not be discovered by
the
authorities.
Professor
Rina Posnansky, director of
the department for Holocaust
Studies at the University of Beer
Sheva (who published dozens
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father withdrew all the money
and bought diamonds which we
hid in a big doll that we emptied
of its contents. I kept the doll,
and at the various checkpoints
nobody considered that a
treasure lay within my toy. Now
and then, my parents would sell
one of the diamonds and that is
how we managed during that
difficult time.
It was 1940 when the Rebbe
came to teach us and he taught
us for three months. People were
afraid to have Jewish children out
on the street and so he taught us
at home. I was a little girl and I
did not ask many questions and I
did not know who this man was,
but over the years, my father told
us that he was the Lubavitcher
Rebbe who was the previous
Rebbes son-in-law at the time
and was staying in Nice.
The Rebbe taught us the
alef-beis out of a book, I think
a siddur, and he also drew the
MY TEACHER
WAS MISS KARASIK
My family then escaped
from Nice to Bordeaux where we
spent time in a detainment camp.
We somehow got to Spain and
from Spain to Portugal and then
to North Africa. After endless
travels and travails, we arrived
in Cairo and went from there to
Haifa. That was at the end of
1941.
When we arrived in Eretz
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With this in mind, we therefore urge each and everyone of anash, men and
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In this merit may we be "zoiche" that much before Gimmel Tammuz, the Rebbe will be revealed
as Melech Hamoshiach and redeem us from this deep and bitter Golus and lead us all to the true
and final Geulo, NOW MAMAOSH.
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SHLICHUS
SHLICHUS IN THE
WILDS OF KENYA
They grew up in warm Chabad communities and
chose to leave the capitol of Chabad in Eretz
Yisroel for the jungle and dangerous wilds of
Kenya, and no, they did not go there to convert
the lions or to shecht giraffes * The story of an
African shlichus in which every Jewish neshama
is more precious than pearls. * If I can do it, then
anyone can. This is our derech, to prepare the
world for Geula, says Chaya. She tells us of her
doubts, disappointments and even an ultimatum
she presented to the Rebbe on her birthday.
By Rocheli Dickstein
afari
najama!
(have a good trip).
You are invited to
get aboard the jeep
together with us and pay a visit to
the land of safaris Krivu Kenya
(Welcome to Kenya).
Although in Nairobi, the
capitol, you dont see giraffes
among the cars, just five minutes
away you can see zebras, giraffes,
antelopes and other animals on
the sides of the roads.
Its a country that is
fascinating,
infuriating,
and
completely
different
than
anything you know.
The locals are not particular
about the commandment keep
a distance from lies and are not
SHLICHUS
The desire to go on shlichus
is the result of the chinuch we
absorbed at home, at school,
and in programs such as Achos
HaTmimim,
says
Chaya.
Shlichus seeped into our
bones. It was a given its what
the Rebbe says, so its what we
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conversations
with
anyone
possible. It turned out that the
delay had us boarding the flight
after the gates had been closed
and for this reason, we did not
pay anything for our overweight
luggage, a practical outcome of
every delay is for the good.
We
traveled
into
the
unknown. When I say the
unknown I mean it! We had no
idea where we would sleep the
next night, how the new country
would look or how the people
would look. We had no idea
how many Jews were there and
whether they existed at all. On
the Internet there is plenty of
information but you cant really
know anything by reading it. It
was only when we arrived that
we understood what it was all
about.
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Right: Chanuka with the head of the community, the ambassador and his deputy
Middle: Challos that are given out for Shabbos
Left: Mivtza Tfillin
TISHREI
We spent an entire week
with our gracious host. During
this week, we began getting
acquainted with the area and
looked for an apartment. We also
got acquainted with people in the
community (yes, although at first
they laughed about our going to
convert lions and shecht giraffes
there is a community of about
eighty families plus fifty to
sixty businessmen who are here
A DECISION
Sukkos passed quickly and
we returned to Eretz Yisroel.
We sat together for an open
discussion. We had seen that
Kenya is full of opportunities for
outreach work and there would
never be a dull moment. The
question was whether we were
made for it. Were we willing to
handle it? In the end, we decided
that with Hashems help, yes, we
were willing.
From when we made the
decision we had two weeks to
organize ourselves and go back.
We ran from store to store to
buy necessities and then, there
we were, back on the plane to
Kenya. The bachurim who had
stayed there did great work while
we were away. They met many
Jews and arranged successful
activities.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY?
After
the
excitement
of
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Tishrei, we landed in Cheshvan,
a quiet month with nothing
happening. I felt we had come for
nothing. My friends were active
in Eretz Yisroel and I was bored
here. I tried to arrange evenings
for women that are successful
elsewhere, but nobody came.
Time and time again.
Women told me, You do it at
night and that timing is not good
for us. Do it in the morning and
well come. I arranged it for the
morning and still nobody came.
It was a stinging failure. For three
weeks I went around with the
OUTREACH
A busy season began with
a Yud-Tes Kislev farbrengen
followed by preparations for
Chanuka. Chanuka falls out at a
time when the entire community
goes to Eretz Yisroel. There
is vacation from school and
businesses give off to their
employees for the secular New
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OBITUARY
A CHASSID
IN THE LIONS DEN
Along with his work helping his father in the founding of
Chabad mosdos in Australia, R Chaim used his business trips
to carry out various missions for the Rebbe. * This is how
he became the Rebbes first shliach to Athens and how he
conducted himself when he had a meeting in the Kremlin. *
He then moved to Crown Heights where he became one of
the most active mashpiim in the neighborhood. * Part 2 of 2.
By Avrohom Rainitz
Chaim
was
a
young bachur in
the 1950s, and
although he had
not seen the Rebbe, he was
mekushar to him, heart and soul.
He even worked to get others
to connect to the Rebbe. When
his father started the network of
institutions in Melbourne, as the
Rebbe instructed him, R Chaim
was enlisted to raise funds. The
refined bachur, who had been
completely immersed in learning
while in yeshiva, was suddenly
discovered to be a talented
communal worker who was able
to successfully raise large sums.
Every Sunday, R Chaim
would circulate in the section
where most of Melbournes
businessmen lived, and enlist
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NO WORRIES
After Pesach, before his
birthday on 6 Iyar, R Chaim
had yechidus for the first time.
Before the yechidus, he wrote
to the Rebbe that he planned on
traveling to Eretz Yisroel to look
for a shidduch, but the Rebbe
THE REBBES
INVOLVEMENT IN HIS
SHIDDUCH
Shortly after arriving in
New York, someone suggested
Esther, the daughter of R
Moshe Mordechai Magnes, as
a shidduch for him. When he
inquired into the shidduch, he
heard wonderful things about her
and that both her parents were
considered expert educators. The
Rebbe had once suggested that
her father run Beis Rivka and her
mother was one of the founders
of the Williamsburg Beis Yaakov
in the 1930s.
However, along with all the
good qualities, he heard that
as a typical American she had
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A HARD BUT
PLEASANT SHLICHUS
After they married, the Rebbe
told the young couple to go to
Australia so R Chaim could
continue helping his father
establish the mosdos. During the
yechidus, the Rebbe said to him:
Im sending you on a difficult
shlichus but a pleasant one.
Toward the end of the
yechidus, the Rebbe gave his
wife a siddur and gave him a
Tanya, telling him to give it to
someone. R Chaim thought
he would give the Tanya to his
brother, R Aharon, who was in
Australia. But as he thought this,
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SHLICHUS TO ATHENS
For twenty years, from 5729-5749, R Chaim spent the Australian
summer months, around Chanuka time, on business trips to Eretz Yisroel.
His route was Melbourne-Athens-Tel Aviv. In 5742, as a result of turbulent
weather, the plane arrived late in Athens and R Chaim missed his connecting
flight to Tel Aviv. He had to spend Shabbos in Athens.
It was two in the afternoon and Shabbos was at four. He rushed out to
get a taxi to go and find a shul. When they arrived at the shul, the place was
locked but there was a sign directing people to the community offices across
the street. R Chaim asked them where he could buy kosher food and was
told there was no kosher store in Athens. But they looked in the rabbis room
and found packages of matza from the previous Pesach. He took a room in a
nearby hotel and bought some vegetables.
When he arrived at shul, the rabbi of the community, R Yaakov Arar,
welcomed him. R Chaim inquired about the state of Jewry and was sorry
to hear that there were only three families that kept kosher, the rabbis, the
shochets, and a woman convert.
At Mincha and kabbalas Shabbos there were only twenty people, but the
next day for Shacharis many people showed up since there was a bar mitzva
boy who was given an aliya. When they noticed the guest, they invited him to
come on Motzaei Shabbos to the club for the bar mitzva celebration.
R Chaim went to the club and when he asked the rabbi whether
he could eat anything, the rabbi said it was all treif and you couldnt
even drink the water there. R Chaim looked sadly at the tables full of
non-kosher food and wondered why he was there.
He then recalled a saying of the Baal Shem Tov about how
Hashem sends us where He wants us to go and he decided he had
to accomplish something there. He began talking with the youth and
saw that they knew English. The young people were fascinated by the
bearded man from Australia and he spoke to them at length about the
importance of observing mitzvos. Then he continued talking to them
and found out that the kids attended a Jewish school until the age of
thirteen. The principal of the school wasnt Jewish but it was she who
saw to it that the students prayed and said blessings.
Since a few months earlier, on 11 Nissan 5741, the Rebbe had
announced the writing of a Torah scroll for Jewish children, R Chaim
decided to spend more time in Athens and get all the children to buy
a letter in it.
On Sunday morning, he was able to find an open bank where he
exchanged 120 Australian dollars into the local currency. Then he went to
the school and gave each child a drachma note so they could buy letters in
the Torah with their own money. Each child wrote his name, his mothers
name and his address and they all received certificates acknowledging their
purchase.
From 5742 and on, for more than ten years, R Chaim was in constant
touch with the community and he provided them with various Jewish items.
He also translated the 12 Psukim for them into Greek. Without an official
appointment, he became the Rebbes shliach to Athens. The members of the
community began writing to the Rebbe and some responses from the Rebbe
went through him.
THE SAME AS IN
SAMARKAND
Since R Chaim did not
want to benefit from holy work,
he went into business with the
Rebbes blessings. He started
with chocolate candies and
then expanded to selling fish
and wine and other alcoholic
beverages. He started a number
of businesses and was one of the
biggest importers in Australia. He
was also a member of the USSRAustralia Business Council.
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PARSHA THOUGHT
HOW TO DEVELOP
UNSHAKABLE
SELF-CONFIDENCE
By Rabbi Heschel Greenberg
SPIRITUAL REBELLION
One of the most difficult
stories
in
the
Torah
to
comprehend concerns the spies
handpicked by Moshe to scout
the land of Canaan. Ten of the 12
spies gave a horribly slanderous
report upon their return. Their
negative depiction of the land
caused nearly the entire male
population of Jews to cry and
spurn the gift of the Land of
Desire that G-d had promised
them. As a consequence of their
rebellion, the spies died in a
plague and the rest of the Jewish
community, aged 20 and older,
were destined to die in the desert
while the conquest of the land
was delayed for almost 40 years.
Commentators have grappled
with this enigmatic episode. How
could such righteous people have
turned so dramatically against
Moshe and G-d?
YEHOSHUAS HUMILITY:
A STUMBLING BLOCK
Another enigmatic detail
according to Rashi is that
Moshe
changed
Yehoshuas
name specifically to fortify him
with the strength not to be
swayed by the conspiracy of the
spies. Why would Moshe single
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understandably most concerned
for Yehoshua, since he was by
nature the most humble of the
12 spies. In his case, the danger
was most acute that he would
think it impossible to uncover the
Divine energy that would lead to
a successful conquest of the land.
However, this answer does
not adequately address why
Yehoshua would think the
Jewish people would be unable
to conquer the land. After all,
humble people always think
that everyone else is superior to
themselves. If Yehoshua couldnt
do it himself, why couldnt the
collective efforts of the entire
Jewish people be able to do it?
LOCATION, LOCATION,
LOCATION
There is another approach
to answering the question of
why Moshe was concerned
for Yehoshuas humility. This
approach is based on the 20th
century work, Knesses Yechezkel.
The Talmud (Brachos 6a)
discusses the importance of
having a fixed place for ones
prayers. The 18th century
commentator
R.
Yechezkel
Landau explains that when a
person prays in a certain location
it acquires a lingering spirituality
that will provide additional
support the next time he prays in
that same spot.
Based on this premise it
follows logically that when one
commits a sin in a given location
it becomes endowed with a
trace of impurity, especially if
that place is used repeatedly for
the commission of a sin. This
lingering impurity can cause
other unsuspecting people to be
more vulnerable if they should
chance upon the place.
This explains the statement
in Ethics of the Fathers: If two
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WHOSE ESTEEM?
We are living in an age
obsessively preoccupied with
self-esteem. And yet we see
so many people who fall apart
when confronted by a challenge.
The problems will overwhelm
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ON THE FRONT
LINES OF SHMITA
OBSERVANCE
In this Shmita year, we looked for a Lubavitcher farmer to interview and
found him on a small yishuv with thirty families on the Egyptian border. *
Meet Yaron Medalia, a shliach of the Rebbe on Moshav Kmehin who grows
olives, and between putting tfillin on with people and making house calls,
he raises broccoli, kohlrabi and tomatoes, produces olive oil, grows wheat
and produces whole wheat flour. * Beis Moshiach went down south to hear
about Lubavitcher farming, Shmita, emuna, miracles, and shlichus on the
moshav with the nearest religious community seventy kilometers away.
By Zalman Tzorfati Photos by Yaakov Savdid
mehin is a secular
moshav in the western
Negev
desert.
The
road to get to it is still
unfinished. When you get to the
end of the road you make a right
turn, coming from Beer Sheva, and
a left turn if coming from Eilat.
We moved to the moshav
when we married and were
among the founders. In recent
years, the moshav has grown
with young families so that now
we are about thirty families, says
Yaron.
Thats fewer families than in
an average apartment building in
Tel Aviv, I comment.
The closest city is Beer Sheva
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HEROES
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GAMBLING OR
BELIEF IN
HASHEM?
So then farming
is a sort of like
playing the financial
markets?
More than that;
I would say its like
gambling or horse racing.
There are no guarantees.
Its an area more than any
other where you sense that
it all depends on Hashems
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CHINUCH
SEEING AND
REVEALING
THE PRECIOUS
SOULS OF OUR
CHILDREN
Another lecture about chinuch from R Nachman Twersky
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CHINUCH POWERED
BY HASHEM
I said to him: My dear Tamim,
you are going through what many
go through, what we call a crisis.
It is a natural process and dont
worry too much about it.
We sat down to learn a
piece from the Ohr HaChayim
HaKadosh together. In his
explanation, he extols the power
of chinuch for the long term, as
the verse says, educate a lad
according to his way
This is what the Ohr
HaChayim says on the verse in
Parshas Acharei, Hashem said
to Moshe, saying, speak to the
Jewish people and tell them, I am
Hashem your G-d, you must not
do as they do in Egypt, where you
used to live, and you must not do
as they do in the land of Canaan,
where I am bringing you. Do
not follow their practices, I am
Hashem your G-d.
The Ohr HaChayim asks: 1)
What is the significance of the
first time it says I am Hashem
your G-d in the verse? 2) What
is meant by in Egypt, where you
used to live are there several
lands of Egypt that the pasuk
needs to specify the one where
you used to live? 3) The land
of Canaan, where I am bringing
you is there more than one
land of Canaan that the verse
needs to specify which one? 4)
Why does the verse repeat, I am
Hashem your G-d?
The Ohr HaChayim explains:
A person might say to Hashem,
if You want me to be careful in
matters of holiness and avoiding
immorality, you should bring me
to a place that is sheltered, where
I wont see the impurities of the
world. If You are going to bring
me into all the filth of the world,
to the land of Egypt and then to
the land of Canaan, where all the
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point, that a Jew fulfill Torah and
mitzvos and be one with Hashem,
who sanctified us with His
mitzvos and commanded us.
The true nature of a Jew
is such that he takes pleasure
in doing mitzvos in this world
and that is more precious than
all of Gan Eden. When we
instill Jewish-Chassidic pride
in our children, they will never
experience a true crisis. Even if
the revealed powers trip up, the
essence does not.
How do we reveal this within
our children? By doing simple
things. When we walk down the
street and see bachurim, we need
to know that they are treasures.
Consequently, we should try
to say a good word to each of
them; it makes no difference
who they are. Say a hearty good
morning. You can never know
what you accomplished with that
fellow on the street when you
said good morning to him.
I once went to a simcha in
California and met a former
talmid. We kissed and hugged as
Chassidim do and spoke as close
friends. Some time later, I met
his father who said to me: You
dont know what you did for my
son. After you finished talking to
him, he immediately called me
and excitedly reported, Rabbi
Twersky was so happy to meet
me!
whole thing.
This was after several years
in which he hardly davened at
all. Slowly he came back. He
married and comes nearly every
day to daven. Now, every once
in a while, both he and she move
forward. They decided to keep
the laws of family purity and then
to cover her hair; it was all in
self-motivated stages. They saw
that its something precious, and
it provides health, good children,
and that is what influenced their
choices.
TO IDENTIFY WITH
CHALLENGES
I once walked into a Crown
Heights restaurant and met a
bachur who works there. We got
into a conversation in the course
of which he told me: I became
interested in Judaism without
anybody being mekarev me. I got
up every morning feeling blah
and didnt feel good about myself
and the entire day followed the
same pattern. I thought about
how religious people get up in the
morning and put on tfillin and I
decided to do the same, thinking
this might put me in a better
mood. I did it and really started
feeling better. I bought a pair of
tfillin and started putting them
on every day. I pray as much
as I can. I learned that just as I
nourish my body, I also have to
feed my soul.
***
Sometimes I meet people
who are feeling down and the
first thing I say to them is good
morning and talk to them about
their gashmius: I hope you are
successful in everything and
make money. Do you know what
will help you succeed in life, in
gashmius? Put on tfillin and say
Shma! You provide nourishment
for your soul and that will enable
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BEING HOPEFUL
R Pinchas Koretz, one of the
disciples of the Baal Shem Tov,
was named for his grandfather.
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